ABSTRACT: The articles are:. 1. The precautionary approach in international
human rights law : how it can benefit the environment, by Menno T. Kamminga.
2. EC environmental policy - a pre-cautionary tale?, by Leigh Hancher. 3. The
impact of scientific uncertainty on environmental law and policy in the United
States, by Dinah Shelton. 4. Glocalization : the precautionary and public
particpation, with special reference to the UN framework convention on climate
change, by Joyeeta Gupta.

ABSTRACT: Abstract: This essay focuses on the (non)application of the
precautionary principle in the Hormones Case. It concludes that the finding of
the Appellate Body that the precautionary principle, as such, cannot overrule
the explicit wording of Articles 5.1 and 5.2 of the SPS Agreement is
debatable, if a similar principle or concept were to exist in health law - a
line of thought that is not pursued by the Appellate Body in its consideration
of the precautionary principle. In addition, the article includes
considerations about the problems that arises if sub stantive unity is sought
in a procedurally non-unified system for international dispute settle ment

ABSTRACT: Contents:.
1. The linkage between sustainable development and customary law.
2. Three case studies from Hawaii, Norway and Greenland.
3. Social interaction: the foundation of customary law.
4. How custom becomes law in England.
5. How custom becomes law in Norway.
6. Adaptive resource management through customary law.
7. The place of customary law in democratic societies.
8. Customary law, sustainable development and the failing state.
9. Towards sustainability: the basis in international law.
10. The case studies revisited.
11. The choice of customary law.
12. Conclusion: customary law in a globalizing culture.

ABSTRACT: ARTICLES:.
1. The definition of the precautionary principle in European law: a product of
judicial dialogue, Carl Baudenbacher.
2. The European Court of Justice and fundamental rights: yet another case of
judicial activism?, Allan Rosas.
3. The rights and interests of undertakings, the WTO law and the prerogatives
of the EU institutions, Paolo Mengozzi.
4. International legal obligations as barriers to national policy: challenges
for national courts, Karin M. Brizelius.
5. What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin! Silence! Trouble
us not. Community law, judicial activism and liquid rules - an EEA
perspective, Hans Petter Graver.

Environmental justice and the rights of unborn and future generations : law,
environmental harm and the right to health / Westra, Laura, xii, 326 p.. -
London : Earthscan, 2006.

ISBN 978-1-84407-366-5

LANGUAGE: ENG

ABSTRACT: Part I: The Rights of the First Generation: 1. The Child's Rights
to Health and the Environment, and the Role of the World Health Organization
2. The Status of the Preborn in Civil Law Instruments. 3. The Status of the
Child and the Preborn in Common Law Instruments and Cases. 4. Supranational
Governance: The European Court of Human Rights, and the WTO-WHO Conflict.
Part II: Ecojustice and Future Generations' Rights: 5. The Impact of
Consumerism and Social Policy on the Health of the Child 6. Future
Generations' Rights: Linking Intergenerational and Intragenerational Rights in
Ecojustice. 7. Ecojustice and Consideration for the Future: The Persistence of
Ecofootprint Disasters. 8. Ecojustice and Industrial Operations:
Irreconcilable Conflict or Possible Coexistence?. 9. Developmental and Health
Rights of Children in Developing Countries: Towards a Model Legislation for
the Rights of the Child to Health.

Marsden, Simon : Strategic environmental assessment in international and European law, 2008

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Strategic environmental assessment in international and European law /
Marsden, Simon, xv, 330 p.. - London : Earthscan, 2008.

ISBN 978-1-88407-489-1

LANGUAGE: ENG

ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:.
1. Introduction: SEA and the Law.
Part I: International Law: 2. An Overview of International Law.
3. International Environmental Law.
4. The Espoo and Aarhus Conventions.
5. The SEA Protocol.
6. SEA and the Conservation Conventions.
Part II: European Law:.
7. An Overview of European Law.
8. European Environmental Law.
9. The EIA and other Horizontal Directives.
10. The SEA Directive.
11. Relationship between the SEA, EIA and other Related Directives.
12. Comparisons and Conclusions.
Index

ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:.
1. International law and the environment.
2. International governance and the formulation of environmental law and
policy.
3. Rights and obligations of states concerning protection of the environment.
4. Interstate enforcement: state responsibility, treaty compliance, and
dispute settlement.
5. Non-state actors: environmental rights, liability, and crimes.
6. Climate change and atmospheric pollution.
7. The law of the sea and protection of the marine environment.
8. International regulation of toxic substances.
9. Nuclear energy and the environment.
10. International watercourses: environmental protection and sustainable use.
11. Conservation of nature, ecosystems, and biodiversity.
12. Conservation of migratory and land-based species and biodiversity.
13. Conservation of marine living resources and biodiversity.
14. International trade and environmental protection.

ABSTRACT: Contents:.
Introduction.
Section I: International Trade Law: Constitutionalisation and Judicialisation
in the WTO and Beyond.
Section I.1: Constitutionalisation and the WTO: Two Competing Visions from Two
Different Disciplines.
1. Multilevel Trade Governance in the WTO Requires Multilevel
Constitutionalism, by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann.
2. Democratic Legitimacy of Transnational Trade Governance: A View from
Political Theory, by Patrizia Nanz.
Section I.2. Judicialisation: Empirical Inquiries and Constitutional Concerns:
3. Dispute Settlement under GATT and WTO: An Empirical Enquiry into a Regime
Change, by Achim Helmedach and Bernhard Zangl.
4. The Appellate Body’s ‘Response’ to the Tensions and Interdependencies
Between Transnational Trade Governance and Social Regulation, by Christiane
Gerstetter.
Section I.3: Participatory Governance: Emerging Patterns and their
Juridification:.
5. Why Co-operate? Civil Society Participation at the WTO, by Jens Steffek and
Claudia Kissling.
6. Participatory Transnational Governance, by Rainer Nickel.
Section I.4 Legalisation Patterns outside the WTO:.
7. Non-Traditional Patterns of Global Regulation: Is the WTO ‘Missing the
Boat’?, by Joost Pauwelyn.
8. Conflicts and Comity in Transnational Governance:.
Private International Law as Mechanism and Metaphor for Transnational Social
Regulation through Plural Legal Regimes, by Robert Wai.
Section II: Transnational Governance Arrangements for Product Safety:.
Section II.1 Food Safety Regulation: the SPS Agreement and the Codex
Alimentarius.
9. Fixing the Codex? Global Food-Safety Governance Under Review, by Thorsten
Hüller and Matthias Leonhard Maier.
10. The Precautionary Principle in Support of Practical Reason: an Argument
Against Formalistic Interpretations of the Precautionary Principle, by Alexia
Herwig.
11. Beyond the Science/Democracy Dichotomy: The World Trade Organisation
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement and Administrative Constitutionalism, by
Elizabeth Fisher.
12. Administrative Globalisation and Curbing the Excesses of the State, by
Damian Chalmers.
Section II.2 The TBT Agreement and International Standardisation:.
13. A New Device for creating International Legal Normativity: The WTO
Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement and ‘International Standards', by Robert
Howse.
14. The Empire’s Drains: Sources of Legal Recognition of Private
Standardisation under the TBT Agreement, by Harm Schepel.
Section III The WTO and Transnational Environmental Governance:.
15. Global Environmental Governance and the WTO: Emerging Rulesthrough
Evolving Practice: The CBD-Bonn Guidelines, by Christine Godt.
16. Environmental Policies and the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment: A
Record of Failure?, by Ulrike Ehling.
17. Facing the Global Hydra: Ecological Transformation at the Global Financial
Frontier: The Ambitious Case of the Global Reporting Initiative, by Oren
Perez.
Section IV Epilogue:.
18. Constitutionalism in Postnational Constellations: Contrasting Social
Regulation in the EU and in the WTO, by Christian Joerges.

ABSTRACT: International Law as Operating and Normative Systems: An
Overview, by Charlotte Ku and Paul F. Diehl.
PART 1: INTERNATIONAL LAW AS OPERATING SYSTEM:.
Sources of International Law:.
2. Hard and Soft Law in International Governance, by K. Abbott and D. Snidal.
3. Traditional and Modern Approaches to Customary International Law: A
Reconciliation, by A. Roberts. 4. Normative Hierarchy in International Law, by
D. Shelton.
Participants in the International Legal Process:.
5. The New Treaty Makers, by J.E. Alvarez. 6. Nongovernmental Organizations
and International Law, by S. Charnovitz.
Implementation and Compliance with International Law:.
7. Compliance with International Agreements, by B. Simmons. 8. Filling in the
Gaps: Extrasystemic Mechanisms for Addressing Imbalances Between the
International Legal Operating and Normative Systems--the Editors. 9. Princeton
Principles on Universal Jurisdiction—The Princeton Project.
International Legal Structures:.
10. A Babel of Judicial Voices? Ruminations from the Bench, by R. Higgins. 11.
The Place of the WTO and Its Law in the International Legal Order, by P. Lamy.
12. The Role of the International Criminal Court in Enforcing International
Criminal Law, by P. Kirsch.
PART 2: INTERNATIONAL LAW AS NORMATIVE SYSTEM:.
To Regulate the Use of Force:.
13. "Jus ad bellum," "Jus in bello"..."Jus post bellum"? Rethinking the
Conception of the Law of Armed Force, by C. Stahn.
14. Legal Control of International Terrorism: A Policy Oriented Assessment, by
M.C. Bassiouni.
For the Protection of Individual Rights:.
15. The Evolving International Human Rights System, by T. Buergenthal. 16. The
Responsibility to Protect: Humanitarian Concern and the Lawfulness of Armed
Intervention, by C.C. Joyner.
For the Protection of the Environment:.
17. International Environmental Agreements: A Survey of Their Features,
Formation, and Effects, by R. Mitchell. 18. Responsibility for Biological
Diversity Conservation Under International Law, by C. Tinker.
Managing the Commons:.
19. Towards a New Regime for the Protection of Outer Space as a Province of
All Mankind, by D. Tan. 20. The Territorial Temptation: A Siren Song at Sea,
by B. Oxman.
PART 3: THE FUTURE of INTERNATIONAL LAW:.
21. The Yahoo Case and Conflict of Laws in the Cyberage, by M. Reimann. 22.
The Future of International Law Is Domestic (or, The European Way of Law), by
A. Slaughter and W. Burke-White.

ABSTRACT: PART I: Introduction - Responsibility and International Law:.
1: Alain Pellet: The Definition of Responsibility in International Law.
2: James Crawford: The System of International Responsibility.
3: Eric David: Primary and Secondary Rules.
PART II: International Responsibility - Development and Relationship with
Other Areas of Law:.
SECTION 1: Development of the law of international responsibility:.
A: Responsibility for internationally wrongful acts:.
4: Patrick Daillier: The Development of the Law of Responsibility in the Case
Law.
5: Martti Koskenniemi: Doctrines of State Responsibility.
B: The codification process:.
6: Lucie Laithier: Private Codification Efforts.
7: Clémentine Bories: The Hague Conference of 1930.
8: Daniel Müller: The Work of García-Amador on State Responsibility for Injury
Caused to Aliens.
9: Alain Pellet: The ILC's Articles on State Responsibility.
C: Liability in the abscence of an internationally wrongful act:.
10: Alan Boyle: Liability for Injurious Consequences of Acts Not Prohibited by
International Law.
SECTION 2: Responsibility and the legal system:.
A responsibility and municipal law:.
11: Joe Verhoeven: The Law of Responsibility and the Law of Treaties.
12: Vera Gowlland-Debbas: Responsibility and the United Nations Charter.
13: Bruno Simma & Dirk Pulkowski: Leges speciales and Self-Contained Regimes.
14: Jean-Marc Sorel: The Emergence of "Soft" Responsibility.
B: Responsibility and municipal law:.
15: Pierre-Marie Dupuy: Relations between the International Law of
Responsibility and Responsibility in Municipal Law.
PART III: The Sources of International Responsibility:.
16: Gilbert Guillaume: Overview of Part One of the Articles on State
Responsibility.
SECTION 1: The notion of an internationally wrongful act:.
17: Brigitte Stern: The Elements of an Internationally Wrongful Act.
A: Attribution:.
18: Luigi Condorelli & Claus Kress: The Rules of Attribution: General
Considerations.
19: Djamchid Momtaz, Gérard Cahin & Olivier de Frouville: Attribution of
Conduct to the State.
20: Christian Domincé: Attribution of Conduct to Multiple States and the
Implication of a State in the Act of Another State.
21: Václav Mikulka: State Succession and Responsibility.
22: Pierre Klein: Attribution of Conduct to International Organizations.
23: Christian Tomuschat, Gérard Cahin & Anna-Karin Lindblom: The
Responsibility of Other Entities.
B: Breach of an international obligation:.
24: Franck Latty: Actions and Omissions.
25: Yumi Nishimura: Source of the Obligation.
26: Constantin Economides: Content of the Obligation: Obligations of Means and
Obligations of Result.
27: Jean Salmon: Duration of the Breach.
28: Paul Tavernier: Relevance of the Inter-temporal Law.
C: Grave breaches of obligations owed to the international community as a
whole:.
29: James Crawford: International Crimes of States.
30: Antonio Cassese: The Character of the Violated Obligation.
31: Paola Gaeta: The Character of the Breach.
32: Sandra Szurek: The Notion of Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness.
D: Circumstances precluding wrongfulness:.
33: Affef Ben Mansour, Maja Ménard, Jean-Marc Thouvenin, Hubert Lesaffre,
Sandra Szurek & Sarah Heathcote: Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness in the
ILC Articles on State Responsibility.
SECTION 2: Responsibility in the absence of an internationally wrongful act:.
34: Michel Montjoie: The Concept of Liability in the Absence of an
Internationally Wrongful Act.
35: Philippe Guttinger: Allocation of Responsibility for Harmful Consequences
of Acts not Prohibited by International Law.
36: Gerhard Hafner & Isabelle Buffard: Obligations of Prevention and the
Precautionary Principle.
PART IV : The Content of International Responsibility:.
37: Roslyn Higgins: Overview of Part Two of the Articles on State
Responsibility.
SECTION 1: The general regime of responsibility for internationally wrongful
acts:.
A: General principles:.
38: Olivier Corten: The Obligation of Cessation.
39: Sandrine Barbier: Assurances and Guarantees of Non-Repetition.
40: Brigitte Stern: The Obligation of Reparation.
B: The modalities of reparation:.
41: Yann Kerbrat: Interaction Between the Forms of Reparation.
42: Christine Gray, John Barker, Elihu Lauterpacht, Eric Wyler & Alain Papaux:
The Different Forms of Reparation.
43: Anaïs Moutier-Lopet: Contribution to the Injury.
44: Alexander Orakhelashvili: Division of Reparation between Responsible
Entities.
SECTION 2: Consequences of grave breaches of obligations owed to the
international communitu as a whole:.
45: Stephan Wittich: Punitive Damages.
46: Martin Dawidowicz: The Obligation of Non-Recognition of an Unlawful
Situation.
47: Nina Jørgensen: The Obligation of Non-Assistance of the Responsible State.
48: Nina Jørgensen: The Obligation of Cooperation.
49: Antoine Ollivier: International Criminal Responsibility of the State.
50: Rafaëlle Maison: The "Transparency" of the State.
SECTION 3: Specific regimes of responsibility:.
51: Susan Marks, Fiorentina Azizi, Raphaële Rivier, Jean-Paul Costa & Habib
Gherari: Responsibility for Violations of Human Rights Obligations.
52: Joanna Gomula: Responsibility and the World Trade Organization.
53: Céline Nègre: Responsibility and International Environmental Law.
54: Zachary Douglas, Daniel Müller & Drazen Petrovic: Other Specific Regimes
of Responsibility.
55: Jean-Marc Thouvenin: Responsibility in the Context of European Community
Law.
SECTION 4: Regimes of responsibility inthe absence of an internationally
wrongful act:.
A: Reparation for harmful consequences of acts not internationally wrongful:.
56: Régis Chemain: The "Polluter Pays" Principle.
57: Mathias Forteau: Reparation in the Event of a Circumstance Precluding
Wrongfulness.
B: Treaty-based mechanisms:.
58: Gabriel Nakhleh & Mikael Quimbert: The Law of the Sea.
59: Mathias Forteau: Space Law.
60: Michel Montjoie: Nuclear Energy.
PART V: The Implementation of International Responsibility:.
61: James Crawford: Overview of Part Three of the Articles on State
Responsibility.
SECTION 1: The injured party:.
A: The state:.
62: Giorgio Gaja: The Concept of an Injured State.
63: Rosaria Huesa Vinaixa: Plurality of Injured States.
64: Giorgio Gaja: States having an Interest in Compliance with the Obligation
Breached.
65: Václav Mikulka: Succession of States in respect of Rights of an Injured
State.
B: International organizations:.
66: Eglantine Cujo: Invocation of Responsibility by International
Organizations.
C. Other entities:.
67: Christian Tomuschat: Individuals.
68: Anne-Laure Vaurs-Chamette: Peoples and Minority Groups.
69: Vaughan Lowe: Corporations.
70: Anne-Laure Vaurs-Chamette: The International Community as a Whole.
SECTION 2: Modalities for the implementation of international responsibility:.
A: Conditions for claims:.
71: Jacqueline Peel: Notice of Claim by an Injured State.
72: Christian Tams: Waiver, Acquiescence and Extinctive Prescription.
B: Diplomatic and functional protection:.
73: John Dugard: Diplomatic Protection.
74: Muriel Ubéda-Saillard & Myriam Benlolo-Carabot: Functional Protection.
C: Procedures for the peaceful settlement of disputes:.
75: Michael Waibel: The Diplomatic Channel.
76: Nadine Susani: Conciliation and Other Forms of Non-Binding Third Party
Dispute Settlement.
77: Frederique Coulée: Arbitration.
78: Gilles Cottereau: Resort to International Courts.
SECTION 3: Countermeasures:.
A: The object countermeasures:.
79: Denis Alland: The Definition of Countermeasures.
80: Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos: Countermeasures in Response to Grave
Violations of Obligations owed to the International Community as a Whole.
B: Conditions for recourse to countermeasures:.
81: Yuji Iwasawa & Naoki Itwatsuki: Procedural Conditions.
82: Roger O'Keefe: Proportionality.
83: Maurice Kamto: The Time Factor in the Application of Countermeasures.
C: substantive limits on the recourse to countermeasures:. 84: Simon Olleson &
Silvia Borelli: Obligations Relating to Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
85: Charles Leben: Obligations Relating to the Use of Force and Deriving from
Peremptory Norms of International Law.
86: Laurence Boisson de Chazournes: Other Non-Derogable Obligations The ILC
Texts.
Draft Articles on State Responsibility (as adopted on first reading), 1996.
Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, 2001.
Articles on Diplomatic Protection, 2006.
Draft Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations (as adopted on
first reading), 2009.

ABSTRACT: PART 1: ARTICLES:.
1. International Investment Law and Environmental Protection, by Ole Kristian
Fauchald.
2. The Role of Science in Investment Arbitrations concerning Public Health and
the Environment, by Marcos A: Orellana.
3. Financing Sustainability: The New Transnational Governance of Socially
Responsible Investment, by Benjamin J. Richardson.
4. Stabilization Clauses and the Evolution of Environmental Standards in
Foreign Investment Contracts, by Lorenzo Cotula.
5. Unilateral Commitments to Investment Protection: Does the Promise of
Stability Restrict Environmental Policy Development?, by Kyla Tienhaara.
6. The Contribution of State-Multinational Corporation "Transnational"
Investment Agreements to International Environmental Law, by David M. Ong.
7. Foreign Direct Investment and Environmental Protection: A Review of the
Legal Regime in China, by Yuhong Zhao.
PART 2: THE YEAR IN REVIEW:.
I: General Developments. II: Air and Atmosphere. III: Fresh Water. IV: Oceans.
V: Energy. VI: Hazardous Substances and Waste, Other Than Nuclear. VII:
International Commons/Areas beyond National Jurisdiction. VIII: Natural
Resource Management and Conservation. IX: International Economy and the
Environment. X: Country/Region Reports. XI: Reports from International Courts
and Tribunals. XII: Reports on International Organizations and Bodies.
PART 3: Literature Review Timo Koivurova: Oran Young, The Institutional
Dimension of Environmental Change: Fit, Interplay and Scale Sophie Riley:
Murray Raff, Private Property and Environmental Responsibility: A Comparative
Study of German Real Property Law Index

ABSTRACT: Table of Contents:.
1. Introduction. 2. Risk and uncertainty: basic concepts and tools for the
application of the precautionary principle. 3. The precautionary principle in
international law. 4. The precautionary principle in EC law. 5. The
precautionary principle in Sweden 6. The precautionary principle in the United
Kingdom. 7. The precautionary principle in the United States. 8. Conclusions.

ABSTRACT: PART I: INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AS A SYSTEM OF
INTERNATIONAL LAW:.
1. Actors and Law-making in International Environmental Law, by Mark A.
Drumbl.
2. International Framework for Environmental Decision-making, by Geir
Ulfstein.
PART II: THEORIES AND CONCEPTS OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW:.
3. Sustainable Development, by Duncan French.
4. Environment and Development: Friends or Foes in the 21st Century?, by Paolo
Galizzi and Alena Herklotz.
5. Implementing Intergenerational Equity, by Edith Brown Weiss.
6. An Introduction to Ethical Considerations in International Environmental
Law, by Alexander Gillespie.
7. The World Bank and Sustainable Development, by David Freestone.
8. Common but Differentiated Responsibilities, by Philippe Cullet.
9. The Principles of Prevention and Precaution in International Law: Two Heads
of the Same Coin?, by Nicolas de Sadeleer.
PART III: SUBSTANTIVE PRINCIPLES:.
10. The Precautionary Principle, by Minna Pyhälä, Anne Christine Brusendorff
and Hanna Paulomäki.
11. Environmental Impact Assessment, by Olufemi Elias.
12. The Polluter-Pays Principle, by Priscilla Schwartz.
PART IV: HUMAN RIGHTS TO A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT:.
13. Human Rights and the Environment: Substantive Rights, by Dinah Shelton.
14. Human Rights to a Clean Environment: Procedural Rights, by Jona Razzaque.
PART V: RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HARM:.
15. Responsibility for Environmental Damage, by Phoebe Okowa.
16. International Liability for Damage to the Environment, by Louise Angélique
de La Fayette.
17. Corporate Liability for Environmental Harm, by Amanda Perry-Kessaris.
PART VI: DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AND COMPLIANCE:.
18. Settlement of International Environmental Law Disputes, by Natalie Klein.
19. Environmental Disputes in the WTO, by Joanna Gomula.
20. Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms, by Gerhard Loibl.
21. International Legal Efforts to Address Human-Induced Global Climate
Change, by David M. Ong.
22. Filling The Holes: The Montreal Protocol’s Non-Compliance Mechanism, by
Feja Lesniewska.
PART VII: BIODIVERSITY:.
23. Environmental Protection and the Concept of Common Concern of Mankind, by
Michael Bowman.
24. International Environmental Law Governing Threats to Biological Diversity,
by David M. Ong.
25. Fisheries and Marine Biodiversity, by Richard Barnes.
PART VIII: SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGIMES:.
26. The 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and Marine Environmental
Protection, by David M. Ong.
27. Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict, by Karen Hulme.
28. The Relationship between the Law of International Watercourses and
Sustainable Development, by Malgosia Fitzmaurice.
29. International Chemicals and Waste Management, by Katharina Kummer Peiry.
30. Drilling at the Poles: Environmental Protection in the Antarctic and the
Arctic, by Karen N. Scott.

ABSTRACT: 1. Sieber, Ulrich: Legal Order in a Global World – The
Development of a Fragmented System of National, International, and Private
Norms.
2. Bigi, Giulia: Joint Criminal Enterprise in the Jurisprudence of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Prosecution
of Senior Political and Military Leaders: The Krajišnik Case.
3. Roscini, Marco: World Wide Warfare – Jus ad bellum and the Use of Cyber
Force.
4. Suarez, Suzette V.: Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
5. Spohr, Maximilian: United Nations Human Rights Council.
6. Fernández de Casadevante Romani, Carlos: International Law of Victims.
7. López-Jacoiste, Eugenia: The UN Collective Security System and its
Relationship with Economic Sanctions and Human Rights.
8. Göcke, Katja: The Case of Ángela Poma Poma v. Peru before the Human Rights
Committee.
9. Tiroch, Katrin: Violence against Women by Private Actors: The
Inter-American Court’s Judgment in the Case of Gonzalez et al. (“Cotton
Field”) v. Mexico Neudorfer, Sonja/ Wernig, Claudia, Implementation of
International Treaties into National Legal Orders: The Protection of the
Rights of the Child within the Austrian Legal System.
10. Weilert, Katarina: Taming the Untamable? Transnational Corporations in
United Nations Law and Practice.
11. Ioannidis, Michael: Naming a State – Disputing over Symbols of Statehood
at the Example of “Macedonia”.
LL.M. Thesis:.
Laowonsiri, Akawat: Application of the Precautionary Principle in the SPS
Agreement.

ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:.
FORUM: Perspectives on International Law from China:.
B.B. Jia: A Synthesis of the Notion of Sovereignty and the Ideal of the Rule
of Law: Reflections on the Contemporary Chinese Approach to International Law.
FOCUS: Climate Change and new Challenges for International Law:.
1. A. Proelss: International Environmental Law and the Challenge of Climate
Change.
2. M. Fitzmauric: Responsibility and Climate Change.
3. P. Aerni, B. Boie, T. Cottier, K. Holzer, D. Jost, B. Karapinar, S.
Matteotti, O. Nartova, T. Payosova, L. Rubini, A. Shingal, F. Temmerman, E.
Xoplaki, & S. Z. Bigdeli: Climate Change and International Law: Exploring the
Linkages between Human Rights, Environment, Trade and Investment.
4. C. Schofield, Rising Waters: Shrinking States: The Potential Impacts of Sea
Level Rise on Claims to Maritime Jurisdiction.
5. J. McAdam & B. Saul: Displacement with Dignity: International Law and
Policy Responses to Climate Change Migration and Security in Bangladesh.
6. M. Bowman: Conserving Biological Diversity in an Era of Climate Change:
Local Implementation of International Wildlife Treaties.
7. J. Gupta: Climate Change: A GAP Analysis Based on Third World Approaches to
International Law.
8. W. Th. Douma: Legal Aspects of the European Union's Biofuels Policy:
Protection or Protectionism?
GENERAL ARTICLES:.
1. G. Handl: In Re South African Apartheid Litigation and Beyond: Corporate
Liability for Aiding and Abetting Under the Alien Tort Statute.
2. K. Ambos: The Crime of Aggression after Kampala.
3. K. Odendahl: The Scope of Application of the Principle of Territorial
Integrity.
4. C. Riziki Majinge: Southern Sudan and the Struggle for Self-Determination
in Contemporary Africa: Examining its Basis Under International Law.
5. A. Gourgourinis: Lex Specialis in WTO and Investment Protection Law.
6. A. Peters: Extraterritorial Naturalizations: Between the Human Right to
Nationality, State Sovereignty and Fair Principles of Jurisdiction.
7. P. Pustorino: Failed States and International Law: The Impact of UN
Practice on Somalia in Respect of Fundamental Rules of International Law.
8. P. Kroker: Transitional Justice Policy in Practice: Victim Participation in
the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
9. K. Oellers-Frahm: Problematic Question or Problematic Answer? Observations
on the International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion Concerning Kosovo's
Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
GERMAN PRACTICE:.
1. W. Heintschel von Heinegg, P. Dreist: The 2009 Kunduz Air Attack: The
Decision of the Federal Prosecutor-General on the Dismissal of Criminal
Proceedings Against Members of the German Armed Forces.
2. T. Giegerich: The Federal Constitutional Court's Non-Sustainable Role as
Europe's Ultimate Arbiter: From Age Discrimination to the Saving of the Euro.
3. T. Giegerich, O. Daum: Chechen Rebels as "Bona Fide Refugees"? The Judgment
of the Federal Administrative Court of 24 November 2009.
4. D. Blöcher: Retraction of Definitive Administrative Acts after a Change in
Case Law.
5. P. Wennholz: Refugee Protection for a Leading War Criminal? The Judgment of
the Munich Higher Administrative Court of 11 January 2010.
6. H. Wieduwilt: The German Federal Constitutional Court Puts the Data
Retention Directive on Hold.
7. A. Proelss: Enforcement of the Obligation to Refer to the European Court of
Justice Under Article 267 (3) TFEU.
8. M. Krivickaite, H.-C. Schröder: The New German Federal Nature Conservation
Act in the Context of the International Law of the Sea.
9. B. Schriewer, Gäfgen v. Germany Revisited.
10. W. Staff: Germany's National Preventive Mechanism Under the Optional
Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture.
11. T. Thienel: Human Rights of Biological Fathers v. Hard and Fast Rules: The
Case of Anayo v. Germany.
12. J. Siegfried, B. Schriewer, P. Braasch: The Withdrawal of Germany's
Unilateral Statement on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
13. P. Braasch: Deportation of Foreign Nationals Under Article 12 (4) of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
14. F. Bieker, L. Frahm: Follow-Up: The Implementation of the ECtHR's Judgment
in the Case M. v. Germany 15. A. Makee Mosa, F. Seesko: Can the 2008 Framework
Decision on the Fight against Organized Crime Influence German Criminal Law?.
16. P. Zickert: German Legal Protection Against the European Patent
Organisation and Other International Organizations.
17. O. Daum: Follow-Up: The Zaunegger v. Germany Case.
18. P. Braasch: Follow-Up: The European Court of Human Rights' Pilot Judgment
on Excessive Length of Proceedings Before German Courts.

ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. Emergence and development of international
environmental law. 2. Main features of international environmental law. 3. The
principles of international enviromental law. 4. Oceans, seas and freshwater.
5. Protection of the atmosphere. 6. Species, ecosystems and biodiversity. 7.
Dangerous substances and activities. 8. Implementation: traditional
approaches. 9. Implementation: new approaches. 10. Human rights and the
environment. 11. Environmental dimensions of international security. 12.
Environmental protection and international economic law.

Saving the oceans through law : the international legal framework for the
protection of the marine environment / Harrison, James, xiii, 336 p. - Oxford
: Oxford University Press, 2017.

ISBN 978-0-19-870732-5

LANGUAGE: ENG

ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. Introduction. 2. The United Nations Convention on
the Law of the Sea and the protection and preservation of the marine
environment. 3. Mainstreaming marine biological diversity conservation in the
law of the sea. 4. Land-based sources of marine pollution. 5. Dumping of waste
at sea. 6. Marine environmental threats from shipping. 7. Fishing and the
conservation of marine living resources. 8. Environmental regulation of seabed
activities within and beyond national jurisdiction. 9. Addressing the marine
environmental impacts of climate change and ocean acidification. 10. Towards
integrated management of the oceans at the international level. 11. The role
of international law in saving the oceans and future challenges for the legal
framework.